Romans 9

¹I say the trueth in Christ, I lye not, my conscience bearing mee witnes in the holy Ghost,

²That I haue great heauinesse, and continuall sorow in mine heart.

³For I woulde wish my selfe to be separate from Christ, for my brethren that are my kinsemen according to the flesh,

⁴Which are the Israelites, to whome perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the Couenants, and the giuing of the Lawe, and the seruice of God, and the promises.

⁵Of whome are the fathers, and of whome concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Amen.

⁶Notwithstanding it can not bee that the worde of God should take none effect: for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:

⁷Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called:

⁸That is, they which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God: but the children of the promise, are counted for the seede.

⁹For this is a worde of promise, In this same time wil I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.

¹⁰Neither he onely felt this, but also Rebecca when shee had conceiued by one, euen by our father Isaac.

¹¹For yer the children were borne, and when they had neither done good, nor euill (that the purpose of God might remaine according to election, not by workes, but by him that calleth)

¹²It was said vnto her, The elder shall serue the yonger.